The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-12
BRIGHT BITS.

A NEWSPAPER poet demands 10 know Where
are the girls OF the past?" Bringing up the
girls of the future, don't you Think? Lotceu
Citizen.
PEOPLE have been known TO talk against gam
bling all their lives on every possible occasion.
and then, after all, to go and get married.
SOnleTUiLLe Journal
DULuTH's new Congregational church will
have stairway so citizens and strangers can
climb up under the spre and see the city from
religious point of view.-ETchGnge.
DID the wedding go off smoothly"
About as smoothly as such affairs always go
off. The only hitch that occurred was when the
pair stood up to be united boston Courier.
MAoNErIsT-Yes, waiter l am a magnetist.
Would you like to see me tip the table!
Water-No. sab; but ii it's all de same to
you, sab, you might tip de waiter, sah.-BoSton
Budget.
sMITH-Hello, Gedneyl I thought you took
the pledge!
Gedney-Yesh. b. grashus but 1 amt (sic)
smean'sh keep little (hic) thing like that.-Bur-
dn9t0n;Free P,eSs.
"BoREAs does business on cash basis, OBJ
serve, remarked the snake editor.
Why asked the horse editor.
We'll. he is always able to raise the wind and
rarely fails to put up the dust. '--Pittsburg
Chronicle
GAGLEY-I hear your son has gone into jour
nalism, madam.
Mrs. Malaprop-Yes; he's contortionist for
Gagley-h'm. Trying to make both ends
meet, i suppoSe.-Ttd Bits
In a recent railroad disaster in the West the
only person killed was man who was taking
straw vote of the passengers. If all railroad
accidents resulted so satisfactorily there would
be no railroad officials censured by coroners'
juries-NOrTiStOUh Herald.
A BRIDE may he ROBBED in yellow and stand
with her bridegroom in a bower of yellow flow
ers and all that. and even be married by min
thn htNfv tRtnt .Nf
decoration will prevent the discovery of the
couples greatness at the first hotel they put up
at.-Sprnqtteld Onion.
PRIMITIVE BUT Proud Mr.. Waldo Ia guest of
Mrs Wabash, of Chicago)-That is a very odd
looking tableknife, Mrs Wabash; silver, is it
not?
Mrs wabash-Yes, it has been in the family
great many years, and | prize it very highly
as an heirloom. only use it to eat pie with
| Tecus SiftinQS.
HIS CoMPENsATIox-"w is that brute across
| the street who slaps those little boys? For a
| cent Id 90 over and kick him."
Leave him alone. It's the only comfort he
| has"
'Why:"
lies the editor of the 'children's corner de-
| partment of weekly paper. Lincoln Jour
| mol.
MASTER ToMMY's father and mother were go.
| ing to the theatre and he was in great grief be-
cause he couldn't go, too.
shut up you inconsiderate brat" growled
his father; didn't you hear me say 1 had only
| two SeatS!a
And to think whimpered Master Tommy
| that if you hadn't married mamma l might
| have gone along Judge.
would you believe it, she gurgled "while
was bathing in the sea the other morning a
| nasty crab fastened itself on my toe"
"Qute an intelligent crab, should think -
| her lover replied
"Intelligenty Why do you think sou
Because it knew how to catch on to a nice
thing
| Then she blushed, and when he attempted to
| take a kiss she made scarcely any resistance
| Boston Courier.
WHO WAS THE WIDow.--This inscription ap-
| pears ON a headstone in the Milford graveyard:
DAVID CLARK
Died
July II, 1881
in the S0th year
of his age.
Also his wife,
ANNA CLARK,
Died
Feb IL, 1912,
Ae. 81.
This stone erected by his late widow.
Hartford Post.